This is probably the wrong forum for the topic, but... does anyone know where your dreams come from?
What factor in your brain determines what you are going to dream about? Why do you dream? Do you always dream without remembering or sometimes remembering, or are there dreamless nights as well? Why do the strangest and most fantasious things happen in a dream? How come, when having a nightmare, you sometimes immediately wake up in the middle of the night, noticing you're sitting instead of laying down? Can you influence your dreams by thinking of one thing all day long?

Those are some questions I have been dieing to know about the subject, does anybody have an idea or an answer to those questions?

I'm not sure where they come from, either. I however do know that we dream every night, it's just that we don't remember them all. So there is no such thing as a dreamless night. I'd imagine dreams are just our imagination running free as we wake up. I've noticed I usually wake up from dreams, so maybe it's us regaining consciousness, but were still kind of asleep, so we go into crazy fantasy land? I don't know :laugh: Strange things happen because it's non-reality. We can't really control what goes on in our real lives, so when we dream, our imagination plays a big role. I'd imagine dreams being our random thoughts that we think while we sleep, turned into visuals. And yeah, we can influence our dreams, I'm pretty sure of it.

No, seriously, aren't dreams partly us acting out unconscious desires/fears, etc.? For example, the first time I drove (I use the term loosely) a car, that very night I dreamt that I was in an accident. Or another time I dreamt I was being cornered and chased by Syd Barrett. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Sorry if that's all irrelevant or doesn't make sense; maybe I just don't understand what you're asking exactly.

From what I've read, there's no definite answer to why we dream. Nobody really knows, there are alot of theories and stuff but nobody has been able to prove any of them right or wrong sconfused
Like some say that it's the brain getting rid of old thoughts and memories and things it doesn't really need anymore, cleaning itself up. And the pictures we see are simply a "side effect" from that. Some say it's our brain trying to interpret whats happening outside of our body while we sleep. As we're unconcious it doesn't really know what's going on but it's still working so it ends up giving us images of the outside world.
And so on, there are alot of theories sconfused
Dreams are necessary though, a dreamless sleep = a pointless sleep. If we don't dream we end up getting a bunch of health problems and stuff.
I dunno if they come from a specific part of the brain though, havent read anything about that sconfused

I do find dreams really interesting too though, and I'm not sure I want to know why we have them as that's part of the reason I find them so interesting. I don't want them to lose their mystery stongue

I'd be a dog, a monkey or a bear, or anything but that vain animal, who is so proud of being rational.

Ugh... I was hoping this didn't remain a mystery!
Last night I dreamt about joining a streetracing and cartuning gang. Totally unrelated to anything that ever happened in my life. sconfused it's so damn weird.

My favourite theory on dreams is it's our emotions all getting sorted out in 'downtime'.

While we sleep our brain is still actively trying to rationalise the things we've been thinking or worrying about - or suppressing.

We aren't aware of the rationalisation processes of our brains - they happen subconsciously. So while only our conscious sleeps - switching off our sensory perceptions - the rest of the brain carries on.